Aerial footage shows scale of damage after house explosion in Kent – video

Several people have been injured after an explosion left a gaping hole in a row of houses in Kent. Some people had to be freed by emergency services as the blast destroyed much of a house in Willesborough, near Ashford, leaving the chimney breast towering into the air. The explosion was not being treated as suspicious, police said

• Seven people injured after explosion rips through houses in Kent